Letter

Though I was racking my brain trying to make sense of everything, the world doesn't stop when you can't seem to catch up. So here I am walking to into school when this is the last thing I want to be doing right now.

"Hey." Harper walks up besides me and I can tell by her face she already knew something was off about me.

"What's up?" She asked

"Nothing, just not feeling that great." I put on a fake smile and she drops the topic even though I can tell she really doesn't want to. And then we continue to our lockers. Hers is only down the hall from mine so she just goes over there really quick and in the few minutes that she's gone the absolute last person I wanted to see walks up to me with that beautiful smile of his. Stop Mari, he's planning to kill you what's wrong with you? I say to myself, I finish grabbing my stuff and I head over to Harper's locker without making it obvious I know something about him.

"Hey Mari." He says walking next to me down the hallway.

"Oh, hey Chris." I said.

"So I was thinking for tomorrow-" Saved by the bell. The first period bell rang.

"Sorry I have to go." I said and quickly walked away to my first class

"Well, see you later." He said but I just continued to walk down the hallway.

" Oh Class, I am assigning you a project. I want you to dig up some family history, learn a bit about where you come from and present it to the class in 2 weeks. Good luck, you're dismissed." Said our history teacher right before class was over. I remember grandma talking about all the old family artifacts, letters and other things being in the attic so I guess that's where I'll look. I gather my stuff, drop some things off at my locker and start to walk out of the school since the day was now over.

"Hey Marlene, can we finish what we were going to talk about."

"Um, not right now Chris I got a project I have to start for history." I said and started walking away.

"Okay, see you tomorrow." He said waving, I waved back, sped up my walking bye the tiniest bit and once I got a fair distance away from him I let out a breathe that I didn't know I was holding.

I got home, said hello to my grandparents and got to work on the project, heading straight to the attic. I was searching around for a little while looking at the old picture and such when I stepped on a loose floor board and it popped up. I went to just go put it back when I caught a glimpse of the purple envelope that had the writing 'to my beloved sea star' I automatically knew it was from my mom. She always called me that because it was the meaning of my name 'Mari' means beloved and 'Marlene' mean star of the sea. Out of curiosity I reached down and pulled the letter out of the floor and low and behold it was in my mother's hand writing. I didn't want to read the letter just yet so I saved it in my back pocket and continued to look around.

There was a lot of wolf decorations, moon tapestries, wolf lawn decor, and more. I don't think much of it and once again continue to look around in the boxes and such. It was a picture of what looked like my mom but she had bright blue eyes when they were naturally brown and sharp canine like teeth that weren't like anything I've seen before even with he dream man. I ended up not being able to find much so I went back downstairs to my room. I sat on my bed stuck in my head until I remembered the letter that I had in my back pocket. and decided to open it.

'Dear Star,

I'm leaving you this letter because I know I can't be there for you right now. I told your grandparents not to give you this letter until you were ready. If you're reading this, I'm guessing you're ready now. There are secrets about our family that you don't know. Not even your father knew. What I'm about to tell you might be scaring and unbelievable but it is the truth.

We are Alphas. Now you may be asking what the is exactly. Alphas are the leaders of the wolves and werewolves. We have enhanced everything now that may sound great in all but it comes with its challenges. The pain that can come with this is unbearable at times but I know you can handle it. We have been keeping this secret for more than 1,000 years. Now you and me, we're different form the other Alphas, were special. We have magic on top of the enhancements that come with being an Alpha. Your grandmother is a witch, a strong one at that and those traits passed onto me. Now you have a witch grandmother, a warlock father and a hybrid mother. That makes you the most power being on the Earth.

There are hunters that come after our kind and there are rivals that are scared and jealous of our power such as the manticore. That is why I had to leave, they were after me and I couldn't put you or your father in that type of danger. I want nothing more than to watch you grow up into a beautiful and strong you woman but I know this is for the best and this is how it has to be. I will forever love you my beloved sea star.

Love,

Mom'

At this point I'm in tears and my mind is even more boggled than before. So there is a possibility that my mom isn't dead? That part made me smile. She needed to leave to protect dad and I there were people after her, there's a chance she out ran them and is still in hiding completely find. But then I thought about the other parts of this letter. I'm not human, I'm some sort of hybrid like my mom but, more..powerful? How did I have no idea I mean there must have been some type of hints through my life is I was some sort of..... supernatural. Plus, Grandma's a witch! That would mean that grandpa is the carrier of the gene, that's how it got passed down. Why did no one think I would need to know this. I could have hurt someone or worse. My thoughts started to get the best of me and I started to hyperventilate, causing me to eventually pass out.